In the Scottish village of Magg-linne things are not quite normal, as a freak earthquake hits and precipitates a dramatic fall in temperature. Meanwhile, across Europe, in the Vatican City, mystery surrounds an untraceable security breach in the computerised nerve-centre of papal authority. This has ramifications for the suspect intentions of Cardinal Giovanni Dalla Gassa. He has plans for a "new Genesis" once he is in possession of the links to God that would tip… (more)

In the Scottish village of Magg-linne things are not quite normal, as a freak earthquake hits and precipitates a dramatic fall in temperature. Meanwhile, across Europe, in the Vatican City, mystery surrounds an untraceable security breach in the computerised nerve-centre of papal authority. This has ramifications for the suspect intentions of Cardinal Giovanni Dalla Gassa. He has plans for a "new Genesis" once he is in possession of the links to God that would tip the cosmic and spiritual balance in favour of the holder. The mystery thickens with the involvement of the freemasons, the Vatican Internal Audit office (henchmen for the Cardinals), Don Luizio Ilario (a ruthless businessman), the disappearance of Michaelangelo (a systems administrator), the death of Massimo (a network technician) and the torment of Francesca De Rose (another administrator) through the Vatican catacombs. Meanwhile, back in Magg-Linne, new strange occurrences are only starting to kick off. In his inaugural novel, Genesis, Nikolaus Baker takes the reader through a hidden world that revives an enigma that has endured for more than three centuries, that brings together the rural Scotland of Robert Burns with the pomp of the Holy See in the Vatican, and that intertwines the mysteries of the esoteric and spiritual with those of modern information technology